Frederick Law Olmstead designed Mont Royal as a planned wilderness. Located in the heart of the city, this park represents our careful management of fear and desire. At once a place of children’s play, sport, illicit encounters and cemetaries, this is a site in which the wild is unleashed within carefully maintained boundaries. This mountain erupting from the earth’s surface also marks a space of conquest - of civilization over ‘savagery’. This tour and tasting will focus on the mushroom as a further symbol of what grows just below the surface of consciousness.Known in Mexico as ‘carne de los muertos,’ it is significant that mushrooms are called ‘flesh of the dead.’ In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan points to fungi’s role in supporting life by decomposing dead matter. Pollan says: “If the soil is the earth’s stomach, fungi supply its digestive enzymes.” Mushrooms grow in mysterious ways, underground, out of human sight and understanding. The underground life of the mushroom is a portal onto the city’s subconscious - that which unfolds in sinewy ways, escaping the light of day or living in its shadow, supporting life, its Other.Join The Chanterelles on the edge of day and night for a mushroom tour and tasting on Mont Royal. Meeting Spot: 1297 Chemin de la Forêt, Outremont, QC H2V 2P9Complexe Funéraire Mont Royal